Damn that sounds awesome, in the dark (so they understand critical listening of surround material) to boot! 50-speakers! Yes. And only a 30 min commute after to the Brick Lane for some onion bhajis. Sold.
Jimi Hendrix - "Electric Ladyland" (50th Anniversary Edition with new 5.1 mix on Blu-Ray) 11/9/2018
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Damn that sounds awesome, in the dark (so they understand critical listening of surround material) to boot! 50-speakers! Yes. And only a 30 min commute after to the Brick Lane for some onion bhajis. Sold.
I preordered mine from ImportCDs, and just got a shipping notification! Still, a small miracle will have to happen for it to be here from across the pond by the weekend. Stil, couldn't pass up the great price ($40.40) which is half of what it'll cost in the stores here.
Discogs has a nifty feature on the new set;
https://blog.discogs.com/en/jimi-he...m=pressrelease&utm_campaign=Artist_2018_11_02
https://blog.discogs.com/en/jimi-he...m=pressrelease&utm_campaign=Artist_2018_11_02
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you know, i feel kinda the same about the 5.1 in this upcoming Hendrix set as i do the new Moodies set (it maybe helps I'm far from what you'd call a rabid fan of either the MB's or JH!) even if the surround mixes 'aren't all that' I'm glad they 'just are'.
That Discogs article mentions Stephan Stills on bass on Voodoo Chile -- ?! Maybe for a session, but it was Jack Casady that gets credit on the album. . . .
*mounts soapbox*
*taps mic*
is this thing on..!?
umm.. i would just like to say...
hitherto, lazy labels have left it to us to add new/current/in-print surround stuff to Discogs, that can then be profiteered off. i am encouraged that Discogs itself is making a tiny wee puddle of a splash of a drop in the music buying ocean about surround in its' Discblogs.
yours blogaholically,
FB of W.Ldn
lets hear it for the "real" Jack Cassidy!
and its..
4 calling girls,
3 french maids,
2 turtle neck pullovers
and f**k the Partridge Fa-ah-mi-ly...
Jim the Oldbie
My right elbow hurts.
OH my goodness.
I prefer Ed Cassidy
That's the Spirit!
"Outside in the cold distance...a wildcat did howl...two riders were approaching...and the wind began to howl"
"Outside in the cold distance...a wildcat did howl...two riders were approaching...and the wind began to howl"
"HEY" (cue guitar gymnastics)
Jim the Oldbie
My right elbow hurts.
"You jump in fronta mah car when ya
Know all the time
Ninety miles an hour girl is the
Speed I drive!"
Good God. I can still remember hearing this on the radio for the first time! I haven't anticipated a release like this since, I dunno when.
Know all the time
Ninety miles an hour girl is the
Speed I drive!"
Good God. I can still remember hearing this on the radio for the first time! I haven't anticipated a release like this since, I dunno when.
first impressions on the 5.1, from the London listening party, as relayed by SHF member phil1db...
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...dition-4-cd-box-eh-sony-nov-9.769994/page-115
(Posted by a trusted facebook friend and it worries me)
"This one is for the trainspotters out there...
So, I've just come back from the premiere playback of the 5.1 mix of 'Electric Ladyland' (an album I know VERY well) at The Aures in Waterloo, London. Unfortunately they didn't play any of the original to enable us to tell what the system/room sounded like, so I can't tell if this was the fault of the system or the mix... but god it sounded awful.
That 'scooped' sound - all top and bottom, with the middle scooped out. The top sounded like it was isolated and boosted with a very narrow Q, and the bottom was boomy and indistinct, probably due to the lack of middle to give it any definition. The snare sounded like an annoying trebly biscuit tin throughout, with no thump.
The 5.1 element was a let-down - I was hoping for a psychedelic freakout - but all I got was a strange 3D-ish smeared stereo effect which ruined any sense of presence, placement or definition, and gave me the distinct impression that the speakers were out phase. Horrible - I really hope its their system, and not the mix. "
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...dition-4-cd-box-eh-sony-nov-9.769994/page-115
(Posted by a trusted facebook friend and it worries me)
"This one is for the trainspotters out there...
So, I've just come back from the premiere playback of the 5.1 mix of 'Electric Ladyland' (an album I know VERY well) at The Aures in Waterloo, London. Unfortunately they didn't play any of the original to enable us to tell what the system/room sounded like, so I can't tell if this was the fault of the system or the mix... but god it sounded awful.
That 'scooped' sound - all top and bottom, with the middle scooped out. The top sounded like it was isolated and boosted with a very narrow Q, and the bottom was boomy and indistinct, probably due to the lack of middle to give it any definition. The snare sounded like an annoying trebly biscuit tin throughout, with no thump.
The 5.1 element was a let-down - I was hoping for a psychedelic freakout - but all I got was a strange 3D-ish smeared stereo effect which ruined any sense of presence, placement or definition, and gave me the distinct impression that the speakers were out phase. Horrible - I really hope its their system, and not the mix. "
As an Aussie live TV host said here in the seventies (and got sacked): (in his best bird accent) “Fark, Fark!”
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Let's be positive and fault the system set~up. Do you think Eddie Kramer would screw up Hendrix's masterpiece like that by sucking out the midrange. Hell, the remastered SONY RBCD played at a very robust volume is room filling and the SACD of Axis Bold as Love is intense.
Again, let's be positive and not accentuate the negative....until we have proof.
indeed.. its 'too soon' to write anything off, of course.. and i acknowledge its only one report, from someone who's fondness
for 5.1 is unknown and in potentially less than ideal conditions maybe..
..but.. i can't conceal i've been semi-dreading the possible results of this surround release ever since i found out it was being done by someone with no track record in doing 5.1 music mixes of studio productions (as opposed to live 5.1 mixes) and so far there has been no mention of anynassistance or collaboration with someone who has done this surround stuff a lot and done it well. if it turns out its been co-mixed with someone like Elliot Scheiner i think we'd be in for something special (insinuations he's too conservative rebuffed for me by Flaming Lips' Yoshimi 5.1 etc., he could and would do the swirly out of phase backwards stuff if that was the brief).. and we may well still be getting a surround spectacular without his involvement (interference some might say! he does have his detractors!)
..ah well, we'll all know for ourselves in the next however many hours i guess.. and like i said on here the other day, a bit like the new ISOTLC 5.1, that this album is happening at all in 5.1 is to me "a good thing".. it just would be equally fab if the 5.1 mix is "a good thing" too! not long to go now!
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don't shoot me, Ralphie! i'm only the non-piano-playing messenger!
Then play "Say It Isn't So " on the piany, EJ.
channeled through non piany tinkler Adam B.FYI, Adam, this Yankee HATES Guns [even though I was a sharp shooter in the U.S. Army].
my aim was true!
HENDRIX SHALL RISE AGAIN FROM THE ASHES IN GLORIOUS 5.1
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